Chapter 4 – Building the Middle-Tier
In this chapter, you will know the reasons why it is necessary to interact with your backend database using an intermediary service. You also take a look at the middle-tier architecture, designing RESTful like API, implementing a RESTful like hypermedia API using Node.js, and handling authentication using Passport. You also learn about building API handlers.
RESTful-like API resources
The following are important links to references on REST and its features:
- HTTP methods: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
- Representational State Transfer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer
- RESTful HTTP methods: http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/httpmethods.html
- Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS
- Good examples of Hypermedia APIs: http://apievangelist.com/2014/04/15/what-are-some-good-examples-of-hypermedia-apis/
- Passport authentication strategies: https://github.com/jaredhanson...
